Critical Children’s Rights Studies : A Research Companion (Hardcover)

Critical Children’s Rights Studies: an introduction 1. Am I a critical children’s rights researcher? A reflexive analysis of the adaptive model of childhood 2. Children’s liberation: a critical return to the radical work of Shulamith Firestone 3. Children's rights as counter-rights: how the paternalism of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child can be countered 4. Children’s search for equality: between the legal and the political 5. Children’s rights from a childist perspective: theorizing social empowerment 6. Children’s rights and the future 7. Recasting children’s rights as relational, circular, and interdependent 8. Destabilizing images of the competent adult vs. the incompetent child in dominant children’s rights discourses through the lens of Akan notions of personhood and social relations 9. Those afraid of gender and childhood: anti-gender attacks against Judith Butler in Brazil 10.Child, early and forced marriage from a critical children’s rights perspective 11. Child rights regimes and the political economy of children and childhood: a historical perspective of time in interpreting social change 12. The hidden histories of children’s rights 13. Historicizing rights subjectivities in post-colonial contexts: the right to education and the deregulation of child labour in India 14. The social construction of children’s rights: origins of, and developments in, the children’s rights movement in Flanders 15. Strategic uses and redefinitions of children's rights: violence against children in Argentina and Brazil 16. Beyond implementation: a critical children’s rights-based approach to the experiences of neurodiverse justice-involved youth 17. A critical perspective on children’s right to play 18. Children’s rights implementation as a lived practice: an ethnography of implementation in India and its potential for critical children’s rights studies 19. Critique after inclusion: three pathways towards a critical study of children’s rights Conclusion